Parkgate Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Coventry
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
3.4 miles
Published by Coventry City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Parkgate Primary School is a primary school in Coventry for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 12 March 2025. Coventry has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Parkgate Primary School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | 3.4 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Reception 2026: the last child offered a place lived 3.4 miles away, the 19th longest of 79 Coventry primary schools with a published last distance (middle 1.52 miles).
- Reception 2026 had 74 first-choice applications for 85 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 11 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 68% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Coventry.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Coventry schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Parkgate Road, Coventry, CV6 4GF
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Coventry
- Pupils on roll
- 683 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 27.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 12 March 2025
Strengths
- “Everyone feels they belong in this caring school.”
- “Keeping pupils safe and prioritising their social and emotional well-being is key at this school.”
- “Nevertheless, the school is ambitious for all pupils to succeed.”
To improve
- “However, some pupils struggle to talk about their learning.”
- “This means they do not develop their communication skills and deepen their subject learning as well as they could.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 6 May 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 68% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 74 first-preference applications, 85 offers in total, 74 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Coventry.
- Holy Family Catholic Primary School 0.2 mi Good Last distance published
- John Shelton Community Primary School 0.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Whitmore Park Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Keresley Grange Primary School 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Holbrook Primary School 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Augustine's Catholic Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Joseph Cash Primary School 1.2 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Hill Farm Academy 1.2 mi Improved significantly Last distance published